Eighteen months ago, Woman Made Gallery started an overhaul in the wake of a racially charged unraveling.
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Eighteen months ago, Woman Made Gallery started an overhaul in the wake of a racially charged unraveling.
On exhibitions of faith in the California desert. For Femme Salée’s “Eccentric Devotions” issue.
Artist JeeYeun Lee’s public project, “Whose Lakefront?” marks unceded Potawatomi Indian lands on the streets of Chicago.
Brian Scott Campbell’s latest exhibit connects the California Desert with Iceland.
As both a beautifully curated space and an invaluable resource, the Reykjavík Museum of Photography is both understated and immaculate, like standing at the edge of the river that formed the Grand Canyon.
Siggi is the art director of the well-known Reykjavík design agency Jónsson & Le’macks, and also works as a freelance illustrator and designer. While working on a brand design for the local R&B trio Sturla Atlas, he came up with the idea of writing their name in a traditional runic alphabet.
Architects and artists have a successful history of converting dilapidated buildings into exciting new art spaces, from WWII bunkers in Berlin, to a slaughterhouse in Spain, to MoMA’s famous PS1, a former New York City public school. With the opening of the Marshall House, Reykjavík joins the party.
From international eye-catchers like Ólafur Eliasson to graduate artists fresh out of Lístaháskóli, showing everywhere from a window display to grandma’s basement, art in Reykjavík spans many weird and wonderful forms in spaces that you couldn’t dream up.
For some, seeing is more than a sense—it’s a sensation. “It’s painful to be somewhere, see something amazing and not be able to take a photo of it,” photographer Þórsteinn Sigurðsson says.
Each permitted hunter is allowed one reindeer. There are around 1,200 permits issued through a lottery system during reindeer hunting season, from July 15 – September 15.
While many Icelandic artists are quick to cite nature as their inspiration, Haraldur is fascinated by the built environment. “Building is a state of mind,” he says. “Architecture affects the way we think.”
In practice, the development of virtual reality has been driven primarily by military and gamer interests. It was not until a couple of years ago that the medium began to invade the realm of pop culture. Filmmaker Andrew Huang is on the front lines.
Graphic Designers Loki Björnsson and Elsa Jónsdóttir's new typeface display: the exhibit opens on September 30 and features nine fonts developed over the past two years.
Cycles and Stillness with sculptors Eva Ísleifsdóttir and Sindri Leifsson
The sky is overcast, there is a couple smoking cigarettes on the front step that I squeeze by, a cat crosses the road. There’s nothing to pull me out of my workday daze. That is, until I round the corner to Pósthússtræti
It’s not street art if it’s in a gallery. “I definitely don’t want to exhibit street art in the white cube,” Sara Riel says, “one of the fundamentals is finding the right spot, it’s part of its nature.”